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half-line
[ haf-lahyn, hahf- ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of half-line1
First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences
It is noteworthy that, out of these twenty-seven instances, the added n appears sixteen times at the end of line or half-line.
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Now Bartels points out that in Layamons verse there is no enjambment and no beginning of a clause in the middle of a half-line.
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A half line is missing, something like, liues louerd so he is, corresponding to mortis vindex in T. Comp.
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The missing half line may have been something like, to is dale nier, as in l. 4.
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Perhaps fikenunge, deceit; or, for the last half-line read for ure unframe, comp.
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